Improvement in cotton-cleaners



J. A. BOWERS a M. ADAR.

COTTOIT-CLEAITER.- No.186,981 Patented Feb.6,18'77.

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JAMES A. BOWERS AND MILTON. ADAR, OF PRINoEToN, ARKANSAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-CLEANERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 186,981, dated February 6, 1877 application filed May 22, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, JAMES A. BOWERS and MILTON ADAR, of Princeton, in the county of Dallas and State of Arkansas, have invented a new and Improved Cotton Gleaner, of which the following is a specification:

Our invention consists of a slotted and ers (J, to which the cotton is fed through throat -D from a hopper, E. and from which it escapes through the passage F..While the dirt and trash escape through the spaces G.

The machine is designed to clean the cotton,

preparatory to ginning it, of the stems and other trash sometimes mixed with it when coming from the field.

The cotton passes from hopper E through throat D, is seized by the rotary heaters on Wheel B, and'carried, in the direction indicated in the drawings, percussively against the ribs of concave, the rotary heaters serving to force a current of air through the throat F and slots G. By this construction the dust and dirt are very thoroughly removed from the cotton.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of ribbed concave, having spaces Gr, rotary cylinder, having heaters O, the throats F D, and the hopper E, all arranged snbstantially as and for the purpose specified.

JAMES A. BOWERS. MILTON ADAR. Witnesses:

M. M DUFFIE, WM. M. ()VERMAN. 

